Software Engineer-Application Security Remediation Specialist

Software Engineer

Years of experience: 5-8 years

Role purpose

• Apply secure software patches and updates across critical banking applications while protecting system stability through automated testing and controlled release practices.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver security patches and vulnerability fixes across core, corporate, consumer and digital platforms.
• Build and maintain automated regression tests for patch and release validation.
• Remediate application and API vulnerabilities aligned to OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10.
• Integrate security checks and patch validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Prepare release notes, impact assessments, rollback plans and post-deployment verification evidence.
• Work with application, DevOps and security teams to resolve defects and release safely.

Required skills

• Enterprise software maintenance and secure release engineering
• Automated testing and regression frameworks
• API security and secure coding
• CI/CD pipelines and version control
• Application vulnerability remediation
• Release, change and rollback management

Key deliverables

• Validated security patches with regression evidence
• Remediated application and API vulnerabilities
• Release documentation, impact assessment and production verification

Certifications

• Relevant secure-development, cloud or DevOps certification desirable

Preferred tools / platforms

• Git and CI/CD tooling
• Automated test frameworks
• SAST/DAST/SCA tooling
• JIRA/Confluence
• API testing tools